Racking the slide

This is a discussion on Racking the slide within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I believe it has to do with years of women hearing from men not to rack certain things and then when told it's OK they're ...

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I'm 6'2", 200 lbs., and I can't put a motorcycle on a center stand unless it's maybe 150 or smaller. I've seen, time and again, guys and women much smaller than me do it with seemingly no trouble whatsoever. I'm told that it's all timing and little muscle, but I just can't figure it out. I owned an old Honda Shadow 650 for years and I don't know how many times I tried. Never got it up on its center stand once.

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I'm 6'2", 200 lbs., and I can't put a motorcycle on a center stand unless it's maybe 150 or smaller. I've seen, time and again, guys and women much smaller than me do it with seemingly no trouble whatsoever. I'm told that it's all timing and little muscle, but I just can't figure it out. I owned an old Honda Shadow 650 for years and I don't know how many times I tried. Never got it up on its center stand once.

With all due respect, I'll suggest it's neither timing or muscle. It's how your center stand is adjusted. I ride an almost thousand pound Harley, and once I got my center stand adjusted properly, I can rock it up on the stand with no problem. Fiddle with it, and see if I'm not right.

Some guns are much more difficult to rack than others because of design. For example, a glock is fairly easy to rack, whereas a Kahr cm9 is hard as nails to rack. Why? The kahr Cm9 is very heavily sprung hence it is harder to rack when you compress the springs. Good technique is critical, but some guns are simply more difficult to rack than others. No gun is impossible to rack with a good technique though.

With all due respect, I'll suggest it's neither timing or muscle. It's how your center stand is adjusted. I ride an almost thousand pound Harley, and once I got my center stand adjusted properly, I can rock it up on the stand with no problem. Fiddle with it, and see if I'm not right.

Appreciate the tip. But we'll never know if you're correct or not because I sold that bike a year ago. Anywho, my point was, and I think you helped with your comment, that there are all sorts of variables involved with stuff like this.